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Severe lower back pain & Depressed

Hi I'm new to this site. I am a 34 year old female. I'm feeling depressed, because of this horrible lower back & left leg pain & the numbness & tingling drive me crazy. I don't know what I did, I just randomly started having sciatic pain in my left leg to the back of the knee at work & it was tolerable, but annoying, I thought it was muscular, but then when it started going all the way down to my foot, it worried me a little, but it was still tolerable, then it got to the point where all I had to do was stand for a minute or two before the pain started. At that point I went to the dr & had an xray that showed narrowing L5-S1, so she prescribed a Medrol dose pack & ordered a MRI. These are the results:

She then referred me to pain management. I saw the NP & she prescribed me lyrica & flexeril. The lyrica makes me feel like I had a mild stroke or something & neither seem to help the pain at all. I'm so depressed, because now I'm walking with a limp & I just need some relief from this pain, it's unbearable & it seems to get worse every day. I'm scheduled for an epidural injection. Does anyone have any suggestions on what worked to relieve the pain or any positive experience with epidural? Any advice is appreciated. Also I'm a nurse & I don't even fully understand the results, but nobody explained them to me. I know the Dr doing the epidural will, but any insight would be appreciated. I was surprised they didn't want me to do PT. I just feel alone in this, because I'm young, none of my friends have experienced anything like this. I'm sorry for the long post!

I'm new to this as well and I completely understand your depression with this pain. It's definitely life changing to say the least. I wish you healing and hope you get to feeling better. I do feel alone most of the time. None of my friends have this either.